70 percent of iPhone and Android open source apps violate licenses

[Ignazio Palmisano]

2011/3/11 Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
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> 70 percent of iPhone and Android open source apps violate licenses
> Whether Android and iPhone developers are flouting open source licenses out of ignorance or out of sheer disregard for the law isn't entirely clear. The potential ramifications are, however -- developers may have their noncompliant apps flagged and removed from stores. Read More

An article worth reading, except for the fact that they don't mention
which violations the developers actually committed. It mentions four
key requirements that have to be met but fails to say which
requirement was failed by developers and wraps together people who
stole code from someone else with people who didn't put a link to the
GPL web page with details of the license. Quite a diverse bunch.

Also, an author claiming to have copyright while instead the code is
open source? That's a gross misunderstanding of what open source
means. The original author has copyright on their code, they can
release it in all sorts of manners, including, not exclusively, open
source.
Says so here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright

where, in between other things, code with no copyright is code in the
public domain - not the same beast as open source.
I.

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